#Trump and the #Taiwan #Gambit

Say Hello to the Russia-China Mobile Operating System
By Pepe Escobar
Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system – and that is not a metaphor. Read more...

Poland Just Became America’s Most Important NATO Ally
By Andrew Korybko
The US’ decision to dispatch 1,000 additional “rotational” troops and even a squadron of surveillance drones to Poland makes the Central European country its most important NATO ally because of the threat that this poses to Russian strategic interests in Kaliningrad, Belarus, Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine, which in turn revives the historical rivalry between these two regional powers over the shared space between them. Read more...

Behind the Scenes and Elections: Koch-Oil Big Lies and Ecocide Writ Large in Canada

#Paris 11-13-15 #Predicted On #Economist #Magazine Cover?

NY Times: Paris Attacks Kill More Than 100, Police Say; Border Controls Tightened

By ADAM NOSSITER and RICK GLADSTONE

The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President François Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France.

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In answering the question of 'Whodunnit' in regard to the horrific 'Friday the 13th' massacre in Paris (11-13-15), your normally cautious reporter here at The Anti-New York Times finds it completely unnecessary to go through a criminological version of the 'scientific method'. Sugar the Cat is instinctively